Halifax prof quits after sexual relationship with student revealed

Halifax prof quits after sexual relationship with student revealed
By Sheena Goodyear, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, January 08, 2015 02:00 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, January 08, 2015 05:41 PM EST
A professor from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax quit his job Thursday after Rehtaeh Parsons' father tweeted a censored version of a ***** picture the teacher had sent a student.
Michael Kydd stepped down from his part-time business teaching gig and apologized to his wife and kids for what he says was a "consensual" relationship with a 38-year-old woman in his class.
He told reporters during an impromptu press conference on Thursday that he was "intimate" with the student twice in October while he and his wife were separated. Glen Canning told QMI Agency that the relationship between the professor and the student began "amicably."
Canning is the father of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Nova Scotia teen who killed herself after a picture of her alleged gang rape was shared among her peers.
Canning, who says the single mother approached him for advice in December.
He said the woman reached out to him and asked if he knew anyone who could "give her legal advice regarding a situation she was involved in with a professor at her university."
He said they later met in person and she showed him a series of text messages from the professor, including one that promised better grades in exchange for oral sex.
QMI Agency has not seen the texts in question or spoken to the student. Kydd has not responded to requests for comment.
Canning said he posted the tweet with the woman's permission after she expressed concern the university wasn't taking her complaint seriously.
The university then issued a statement that the part-time prof had been suspended for a code of conduct violation involving a student.
University policy prohibits relationships between professors and students.
"We are taking this matter very seriously and are responding accordingly, including notifying students and letting them know that the instructor is not currently in the classroom, pending an investigation," university president Ramona Lumpkin said in a press release.
Shortly after, Kydd came forward and apologized.
He told reporters he made a serious error in judgment and expects his career will be ruined.
Kydd said the relationship was consensual and the pair exchanged explicit pictures. He denied it was "a sex-for-grades" scenario.
"I breached the code of conduct. I got involved in a consensual relationship at a time in my life where I was very uncomfortable and seeking, I think, some level of comfort," he said.
Kydd is also the president of Merit Nova Scotia, an open-shop contractors union. Merit's website describes Kydd as "a proud father and 10-year cancer survivor" who "takes great pride in building positive relationships with contractors, workers and students."Halifax prof quits after sexual relationship with student revealed | Canada | Ne

I strongly encourage you to keep yourself and your kids out of school. Out of society entirely, preferably. Wouldn't want you to be all stressed out by "unnatural" stuff like wearing clothes and living in houses.

I strongly encourage you to keep yourself and your kids out of school. Out of society entirely, preferably. Wouldn't want you to be all stressed out by "unnatural" stuff like wearing clothes and living in houses.

The angle I'm looking at it from, I'd find a way to change the system so that normal human behaviour can't get into conflict with school/teacher/students environment.

Unless you want to segregate everything by gender, that's just not going to be possible. Millions of people interact daily without harming one another, that's the standard we need to strive for, not giving in to the lowest common denominator.

Unless you want to segregate everything by gender, that's just not going to be possible. Millions of people interact daily without harming one another, that's the standard we need to strive for, not giving in to the lowest common denominator.

If that's the only solution you have you lack imagination.

It's a standard we will never reach. But I think you're willing to live with that.

Here is a example.

If a Unknown identity is in charge of grades.
You have just eliminated our problem in this situation.
How can you blackmail someone you're not grading?

Problem fixed

This will never have the potential to happen again.
I've bypassed human imperfect behaviour.

By simple analysis I've identified the conflict
between human behaviour and the system and have
Changed the format to eliminate it at the cause of
The conflict.

I've eliminated the potential for a conflict to happen

Quote: Originally Posted by Tecumsehsbones

I strongly encourage you to keep yourself and your kids out of school. Out of society entirely, preferably. Wouldn't want you to be all stressed out by "unnatural" stuff like wearing clothes and living in houses.

No. I wish to adapt things in our life to make them more user friendly."natural"

Like I just explained above.

Quote: Originally Posted by SLM

Unless you want to segregate everything by gender, that's just not going to be possible. Millions of people interact daily without harming one another, that's the standard we need to strive for, not giving in to the lowest common denominator.

Millions of people walk every day, that's a standard.
Let's not give in to the lowest denomination that can't walk.